Ayad al-Tubasi

Ayad al-Tubasi was an al-Qaeda operative from Jordan.

Biography
Ayad al-Tubasi was born in Jordan to a Sunni Muslim family, and he fought alongside fellow Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Iraq War as an al-Qaeda in Iraq leader. At the start of the Syrian Civil War, Tubasi helped in founding the al-Nusra Front affiliate of al-Qaeda in Syria, and he was one of its veteran commanders. However, he cut his ties with al-Nusra's successor Jabhat Fateh al-Sham on its separation from al-Qaeda on 23 August 2016, although al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri praised JFS for continuing the jihad.